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"Before ('Crazy Rich Asians'), I hadn't even done a tiny part in a studio film," Wu wrote on Twitter Tuesday. "I never dreamed I would get to star in one...because I had never seen that happen to someone who looked like me."

"Before ('Crazy Rich Asians'), I hadn't even done a tiny part in a studio film," the 36-year-old wrote in a message posted to Twitter Tuesday. "I never dreamed I would get to star in one...because I had never seen that happen to someone who looked like me."

The “Fresh Off the Boat” actress said her starring role on the big screen is nothing short of “historic,” and the significance has not been lost on her.

"The best gift has been YOU—the Asian American women and men I have heard along this journey," she wrote. "You have taught me so much."

A USC study released in July 2017 found that of the 100 top films of 2016, more than half of the movies did not have an Asian or Asian-American female, and 44 had no Asian characters at all.

Wu said this film is changing that. “('Crazy Rich Asians') not only centers (on) an Asian American story, it is also filled with a talented, dynamic, unique all-Asian cast,” she wrote. Wu added: “I hope you help our movement.”

The movie, which hits theaters on Aug. 17, comes more than two decades after the last big-budget movie centered around Asian-Americans, “The Joy Luck Club.”

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The fabulous cast of "Crazy Rich Asians" shut down Hollywod's TCL Chinese Theatre with stunning looks on Aug. 7. Constance Wu will star in the first Hollywood studio film centered on an Asian-American character’s story in over 25 years. The film opens Aug. 15. Getty Images

Constance Wu said the film is making history. "Before ('Crazy Rich Asians'), I hadn't even done a tiny part in a studio film," she wrote in a message posted to Twitter. "I never dreamed I would get to star in one...because I had never seen that happen to someone who looked like me." Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP